melissa mccarthy Archives - Movies In Focus

Teaser Trailer & Poster For THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Starring Chris Hemsworth & Half Of Hollywood

Thor: Love And Thunder looks like more of the same superhero slapdash. This is kind of getting exhausting now as it seems like nearly everyone in Hollywoodis picking-up a nice big payday for starring in Taika Waititi’s fourth Thor movie. Chris [...]

April 19, 2022

Oscars 2019: The Winners At The 91st Academy Awards

In the end there were no real surprises at the 91st Academy Awards – only disappointments. The awards were pretty much spread evenly across all the likely candidates, but there will be gripes, complaints and arguments about nearly all winners [...]

February 25, 2019

BAFTA 2019: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

The Favourite would appear to be the favourite at the 2019 EE BAFTAs. Yorgos Lanthimo’s film is nominated in 12 categories – including Best Film, Outstanding British Film and Original [...]

January 9, 2019

The Trailer For THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS Left Me Speechless, Literally

Ummmm…I really don’t know what to say about this trailer for The Happytime Murders. You’ll have to watch it for yourself. Warning – it’s not for the fainted-hearted. And I mean that. THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is set in the [...]

May 19, 2018

GHOSTBUSTERS Reboot Trailer

This looks like Ghostbusters. I don’t know what else to say. It will never replace the original but I’m sure I’ll catch it at some point in the future. No rush. Ghostbusters starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones [...]

March 3, 2016

Bill Murray Joins The Cast Of Paul Feig’s GHOSTBUSTERS Reboot

Bill Murray declined the opportunity to return to the world of ghostbusting for decades – however he has finally relented and filmed a cameo in Paul Feig’s all female Ghostbusters reboot. Murray joined the shoot in Boston for a day to film his [...]

August 10, 2015

Who You Gonna Call? The GHOSTBUSTERS Reboot Cast Suited And Booted

I can’t muster any sort of reaction to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot. There’s no excitement, no anger, no fear – nothing. It’s a pointless endeavour to attempt and update Ivan Reitman’s seminal ‘80s classic. It’s not the fact [...]

July 11, 2015

Wardrobe From Paul Feig’s All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS; Updated With New Proton Pack

Movies In Focus hasn’t covered much of Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot (none at all in fact). This is for many reasons – the main one being that Ivan Reitman’s original is a true ‘80s classic and I don’t think it needs a [...]

June 30, 2015

Box Office: IDENTITY THEFT Steals #1; WARM BODIES Hot & SIDE EFFECTS Sidelined

Bad weather and poor reviews couldn’t stop the terrible looking Identity Theft from stealing the top spot at the box office. The Melissa McCarthy/Jason Bateman comedy looks set to score $34 million over the weekend – about a million shy of its [...]

February 9, 2013